|
NOTE!
This is a real-time comments system. As such, it's also a
free speech zone within guidelines set forth on the Post
Comments page. Opinions expressed here may or may not
reflect those of KeepAndBearArms staff, members, or
any other living person besides the one who posted them.
Please keep that in mind. We ask that all who post
comments assure that they adhere to our Inclusion
Policy, but there's a bad apple in every
bunch, and we have no control over bigots and
other small-minded people. Thank you. --KeepAndBearArms.com
|
The
Below Comments Relate to this Newslink:
FL: Don't celebrate New Year's Eve with gunfire, Miami-Dade leaders urge
Submitted by:
jghilty
|
There
are no comments
on this story
Post Comments | Read Comments
|
"If New Year's celebrations Thursday and Friday follow a recent South Florida trend, some revelers will ring in the good times by whipping out their guns and firing away."
"And innocent people will die."
"Celebratory gunshots took the life of 11-year-old Joshua Arroliga at the start of 2008. The Opa-locka boy was playing hide-and-seek behind a discarded sofa at his apartment building when one of his neighbors emptied a 9mm Glock's magazine into the furniture -- not realizing Joshua was hiding behind it."
"A year earlier, stray New Year's bullets took the life of two South Floridians -- Corey Baker, a 35-year-old father of five children in Miami, and Audley Ebanks, 69, of Plantation." ... |
No
Comments found for this Newslink
|
|
QUOTES
TO REMEMBER |
By calling attention to a well-regulated militia for the security of the Nation, and the right of each citizen to keep and bear arms, our Founding Fathers recognized the essentially civilian nature of our economy. Although it is extremely unlikely that the fears of governmental tyranny, which gave rise to the second amendment, will ever be a major danger to our Nation, the amendment still remains an important declaration of our basic military-civilian relationships, in which every citizen must be ready to participate in the defense of the country. For that reason I believe the second amendment will always be important. --JOHN F. KENNEDY |
|
|